In high school, our Deputy Principal’s nickname was 'Savimbi,' named after Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan rebel who spent more than 30 years battling first for Angolan independence and then for personal ...

The shameful passage of the assisted dying Bill where safeguards have been all but jettisoned is symptomatic of a ...

Tate Britain, LondonA Flemish ‘paintrix’ at the court of Elizabeth I, a magnificent mouth artist and a glamorous suffragette are finally given their due in a show tracing female artists’ rocky road to ...

From flourishes of excitement just like Charles Dickens ‘It was the best of times ... offering a glimpse of the characters and hinting at the story yet to unfold. The beauty of the ...

To mangle Charles Dickens’ words, it was the worst of times but it was also the best of times. Communities rallied together (often for the first time) and individuals’ thoughts extended to the welfare ...

Another is that he can’t write female characters. And another is that he shouldn ... He’s not a Proust in his cork-lined study, but a Dickens, with his notebook out, on the streets. Pip finds herself ...

Life in a 19th-century pharmacy is re-created in this four-part documentary. Historian Ruth Goodman, professor Nick Barber and doctorate student Tom Quick discover how people attempted to cure common ...